Education
PhD (University College Dublin)
Keywords
economic history; financial history; macroeconomics; central banking
Biography
Rebecca’s research focuses on monetary and financial history and monetary economics, with particular emphasis on the long-run evolution of financial and macroeconomic data, stock market integration, and the co-movement and forecasting of business cycles in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the informational content of central bank communications.
Previously, Rebecca worked at the Central Bank of Ireland, where she was based in both the Financial Stability and Monetary Policy divisions. Her work involved developing policy assessment frameworks at Irish and European levels, and she represented the Bank in key European fora, including the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem of Central Banks (ESCB) and the Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).
She completed her PhD in Economics at University College Dublin in 2016, and her research has been recognised with several awards, including the Barrington Medal from the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland in 2017. Since 2020, she has been an Honorary Professor of Practice in Finance at Queen’s Business School and a Research Associate at the Queen’s University Centre for Economic History. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.